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From the concern for the number of bees to the search for a certain energy sobriety, – including for mobility (LPG, PHEV) -, Dominique Deslandes seeks in all directions to have a positive impact on the environment, or in any case, the least negative possible. For Automobile Propre, he explains his choices.
Pollinator
"S When we talk about pollinating insects or pollination, the word 'pollinator' does not exist in French. That's why I put it in value. Pollinators are people who act for the future of our planet. This word comes, of course, from pollination. We have been pollinating beekeeping with my wife for 10 years and I trained this year 4 people in traditional beekeeping and pollinating ", rejoices Dominique Deslandes.
What a difference between traditional beekeeping and the pollinator? " A beekeeper will favor the production of honey by raising honeybees in hives. The pollinator hopes to establish bees in air nests where they can live as they were millions of years ago, with much greater resistance to diseases and predators "he says.
Paradise beekeeping
" With my wife, we decided that we could not sit idle when we heard that the bees disappear ", justifies Dominique Deslandes. " We live in the suburbs of Paris: it is an apicultural paradise! ": this sentence of our interviewee could lend to smile. And yet! "P has too much concrete where we are, and especially no harmful products for bees in the vicinity ", explains this former electronic engineer, now retired, who, after several professional experiences, worked in a research center. Concern for the environment and biodiversity is omnipresent in our interviewee. In seeking to improve constantly, he touches on permaculture, biodynamic gardening, composting, silviculture, ornithology, etc.
From energy sobriety to more virtuous mobility
" Since the 1980s, I build and improve my house. First with my parents, then with my wife very present at my side "reveals Dominique Deslandes. " It is not yet, but I hope to achieve a positive energy habitat ," he continues. At home, there are already a lot of interesting facilities: recovery of rainwater; wood burning logs with reverse ignition, but also heat pump; solar cooking, etc. In the head, for years, a project that could well be achieved in 2019 or 2020, electricity generation by steam cogeneration.
" This system would serve, among other things, to recharge my Mitsubishi Outlander electricity. PHEV ", stresses our interlocutor. Which architecture? "U mirror parabola (2 m2 capture) would concentrate the energy of the Sun on a furnace filled with water. The steam thus produced would supply a turbine (4 kW) that would drive an alternator. The latter would provide electricity for the consumers of the house and the recharge of the battery Outlander "he explains.
First, the LPG
The first reflections of Dominique Deslandes for sustainable mobility date back to 1978. " I became interested in LPG a bit by chance, with the research center where I was. There were then Renault 4s that were equipped to run with this gas. I traveled about 70 kilometers a day. It could be interesting. But these cars worked in monocarburation. Too restrictive with a network of LPG pumps not very developed. So I abandoned the idea at that time "he says.
" In 1993, I was still driving a lot, and often far from home. The LPG sector was revitalizing itself. I originally wanted to save money. One of the arguments put forward by professionals was that LPG does not reject particles, it is clean, and it is sufficient to note the color of the oil at the time of the engine oil to be convinced. I had a Peugeot 104 GLS equipped with bi-fuel gasoline / LPG. But I only drove LPG with it "says Dominique Deslandes. What about LPG? But we had to start with gasoline! " No, because the extinguisher was very close to the cooling system thermostat. The gas supply was immediately warmed up. I needed 2 times less starter than gasoline. I admit, however, that I consumed once a year the contents of the super tank to renew it "he replies.
Several vehicles LPG
" Between 1995 and 2005, I had a Peugeot 605 that I had fitted to the LPG by taking over part of the installation of the 104, including the steam regulator. A new gas tank was installed. But with the automatic choke, it did not work really well. I had to drive a lot with the 605 "continues Dominique Deslandes.
" In parallel with these two cars, we had a Renault Espace between 1993 and 2000. When we 'have been converted for bi-fueling, he found himself immobilized at the installer LPG. Finally, the one who had done the electrical adaptation remembered that he had done a very poor job. At the time, we trained people who, most often, did not know anything about it, giving them software. One could discover bad splices on the electrical wires, sometimes stripped on too long portions, and then protected with simple scotch ", he testifies. "The 605 has given way to a Volvo S60, and Space to a Peugeot 806 that we still have, both also to the LPG", completes our interviewee.
Electric mobility
If the name of Deslandes may seem familiar to readers of Auto Clean, because we gave the floor to his son Guillaume, who recently acquired a few months ago a motorcycle Zero Motorcycles DS. " In this article, you said 'Son of a militant owner of rechargeable hybrid car' talking about Guillaume. In fact, at the level of mobility, it is more my son who trains me than the opposite! ", wishes to correct Dominique Deslandes
" He first advised me to buy a Renault Kangoo Electr'Road. I hesitated knowing that I would have to do a good part of the interview on my own. But with the assurance of being assisted by a connoisseur, – Didier Petitot -, and my need to be able to easily load loads, – in particular my production of logging -, plus the extension of autonomy to reassure me, I finished to buy a copy. Eight years with this vehicle, including 3 of immobilization. It is a toy! "he reports.
PHEV
" I 3 years ago, we realized that after the Kangoo Elect'Road we were left with a 806 LPG aging. Always with the same need for a practical vehicle in which we can put various loads. Fashion is no longer friendly monospaces that turn easily into utility, what to take? I did not see anything! Once again Guillaume gave me the answer, suggesting the Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid ", reports Dominique Deslandes
" SUV fashion tends to give me little buttons. But with my needs to fit equipment and tow a trailer, to be able to do the road from time to time (not want a second vehicle for that), and to be the most efficient in my daily journeys, the the purchase of this model was justified "he pleads. After almost 3 years of use, I say 'Respect!' To the Mitsubishi engineers. Certainly the browser and the radio are average, but the management of the vehicle is excellent judge our interlocutor who was able to take advantage of 11,000 euros discount when signing the check: 4,000 euros just with the government bonus, and 7.000 discount from the seller because of the new model relooked that arrived in the concessions. " That's 25% off the purchase price! ," says the retired engineer.
Volvo XC90 / Mitsubishi Outlander
" If I compare the Outlander PHEV with its competitors, I tell myself that I made the right choice. For example with the Volvo XC90, it's obvious for me who is looking for energy efficiency! The Outlander has a rather simple heat engine that develops a power of 121 horsepower, and 2 electric motors. The Volvo, it has a thermal block of 320 horses, with 3 turbos, but only one electric motor. This machine clearly aims at performance, not energy efficiency! ", laments Dominique Deslandes. Since then, our interviewee wishes to highlight the Mitsubishi rechargeable hybrid solution. At the Vendée Energie Tour, last June, he proposed to the visitors of the village of the mobility mounted in this frame, in Noirmoutier, to watch, under his explanations, a slideshow.
52 km in electrical?
The model of The Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid acquired by our interviewer has, according to the NEDC cycle, a range of 52 kilometers that most users can not obtain. In his document, he takes the example of a trip he regularly makes, in Seine-et-Marne. The shortest round trip in time requires approximately 1h26 of driving. The 100 kilometers that it counts are carried out only up to 30% in electric mode, is 30 km. He tried another route to connect the same 2 points, more energy efficient and shorter in distance, but longer in time: 94 km, to achieve in 2 hours, 64% in electric mode, almost 60 km! 19659004] 
Finally, it exposes a last possibility, which constitutes a satisfactory compromise time / energetic efficiency, although the distance is the most extended. The 112 km are swallowed in 1:48, 55% electric mode, or 62 km. "If we want to be effective, we must take the trouble," concludes our interlocutor of this example. By saying this, he does not wish to be in the judgment of the habits of each. Its objective: to motivate the owners of rechargeable hybrids who wish to be as efficient as possible in energy consumption.
Different profiles
« As long as the autonomy of the electric vehicles and the network of recharging will not allow, to those who need it regularly, to make long displacements, the rechargeable hybrids are reassuring and more relevant ", estimates Dominique Deslandes. He himself has essentially small trips to make. In the summer of 2016, he recorded some data for all trips made, sometimes with a loaded trailer hitched with tarpaulin: 6 more than 52 km, for 681 km cumulated; 39 of less than 52 km looped almost exclusively with electricity, for a total of 878 km.
The whole represents 1,559 km, obtained with 30,31 l of SP98 + 44 recharges of the battery. The average fuel consumption is 1.94 l / 100 km. And if we reduce all energy consumption in liters of gasoline (1 liter of gasoline = about 9 kWh), we find the equivalent of 3.87 l of SP98 per 100 km. To conclude, the former engineer gives his recipe for energy sobriety mobility when it is not possible to do without a car: 1 efficient and effective vehicle + 1 driver who practices eco-driving + the choice of the route most adapted to energy efficiency.
Automobile Propre and I are very grateful to Dominique Deslandes for the time taken to answer our questions and the many documents transmitted.
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